The Most Undermet Emotional Needs
- March 19, 2024
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For years I often heard people say that you have to go through grief and pain, you can’t go around it, you can’t go above it, you have to go through it. For years I didn’t understand what that meant. We live in an incredibly emotionally avoidant culture which then leads to chronic mental emotional health struggles, high addiction and disconnection from self and others among other symptoms.
In order to move through grief or pain a person must create a safe space for emotions to build. Like a wave on a beach, emotions need to be able to build and crash safely on the shore before they can recede out and become calm again. Instead of allowing the natural flow, we often dam up the water as high as we can to keep it from crashing, but then when it inevitably breaks the dam, and the lifetime of suppressed emotions can come cascading and flooding ...
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- Change
- Communication
- Control
- Coping
- Decisions
- Effort
- Emotions
- Empathy
- Goals
- Grief
- Mindset
- Positivity
- Presence
- Processing
- Tragedy
- compassion